The time has come for the end; when the proverbial “pen hits the paper.” I’m not referring to taxes, but year-end resolutions. We all make them, and we’ve all broken them, but this year is different. This year is the year for positive changes. These changes will set the course for how, not just this, but the years to come for life expectations will propel life into motion.

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Maybe old dogs can learn new tricks. Or maybe sometimes people let their emotions rule them before really thinking a situation out.

Either way, it looks like Saints running back Reggie Bush has done a little growing — maturing — in recent days. Over the past three weeks, Bush has appeared to be attempting to do much damage to his relationship with the Saints, the city of New Orleans and the Who Dat Nation with a series of ill-conceived, knee-jerk tweets.

A few years ago, beauty queen Carrie Prejean innocently answered a question about gay marriage with a polite “no.” She was viciously personally attacked by Miss USA pageant judge Perez Hilton, who posted a video of himself cursing at her.

Prejean was eventually stripped of her crown, and as for Perez Hilton?

“I’d love to have him back,” pageant owner Donald Trump once said. “I mean, I’d love to have him back” — although he didn’t actually do it.

“I don’t know!” I told her for the umpteenth time. “The answer is not going to change until probably the day we leave.” For whatever reason, this was driving the woman I promised to love, honor and not organize events the way she would do it crazy. Let me explain.